Skate.



J. H. KESSLER.

SKATE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN- 19. I911.

Patented Dec. 4,1917.

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SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. a, 191% Application filed. January 19, 1917. Serial No. 143,250.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. KEssLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Yonkers, in the county of Nestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Skate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved skate arranged to facilitate the execution of fanciful curves or sudden turn about movements or momentary stopping, as is required in dancing, fanciful skating, or in playing hockey and other games. Another object is to aid beginners in learning to skate with a reduction of the danger of falling.

In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a runner provided at the tin der side with transversely extending notches spaced apart in the direction of the length of the runner.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l'is a perspective view of the skate; and

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

The skate illustrated in the drawing comprises a runner 10 supporting a heel plate 11, a sole plate 12 and a toe plate 13, the several plates 11, 12 and 13 being provided with apertures 14 for the passage of screws or other fastening devices for securing the skate to the shoe or boot. Although my improvement presently to be described in detail is shown applied to this form of skate, it is expressly understood that I do not limit myself to the type of skate illustrated as the improvement is capable of application to the runners of the various types of skates. The under side of the runner 10 is provided with transversely extending notches 16, preferably of inverted V-shape, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. The notches 16 are spaced equal distances apart throughout the length of the runner except at the front or toe portion 17, at which point the notches 18 are preferably in closer relation to one another to provide teeth 19 to enable the user to come to a quick stop whenever it is desired to do so. The space between adjacent notches 16 extends a greater length than the bottom opening of a notch 16 thus dividing the bottom portion of the runner 10 in a number of integral sections 20.

It will be noticed that by constructing the runner 10 in the manner described, the user of the skate obtains a firm hold on the ice when executing fanciful curves as the corners of the sections tend to cut into the ice to prevent the runner from slipping sidewise whether the skater skates in a forward or a reverse direction.

In using the skate, the notches 16 are liable to fill with minute particles of ice scraped up by the cutting corners of the sections 20 and such ice particles packed in the notches 16 aid in rapidly gliding over the ice owing to the contact of the packed ice particles on the ice surface.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A skate provided with a runner having at the under side transversely extending inverted V-shaped notches spaced apart in the direction of the length of the runner, the space between adjacent notches being in ex cess of the bottom opening of a notch, and the side walls of said notches being of equal length and angularity.

2. A skate provided with a runner having at the underside transversely extending notches having upwardly converging side walls, and spaced apart in the direction of the length of the runner, the side walls of said notches being of equal length and an gularity, the space between adjacent notches being greater than the bottom opening of the notches throughout the major portion of the runner, but successively lessening in width at the front part of the runner and finally terminating in sharp points.

8. A skate provided with a runner having at the underside transversely extending notches whose side walls are symmetrical with respect to a perpendicular to the base line of the skate runner, said notches spaced apart in the directionof the length of the runner and the space between adjacent notches being in excess of the bottom opening of a notch.

JOHN H. KESSLER.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patentsv Washington, D. G. 

